my mom used to use to tell us that if we stayed up to late, we would turn into pumpkins......i was afraid of becoming a pumpkin for the longest time.

ke.

When I was younger, I thought that when people were sleeping at night, their heart stopped for a while to rest, and then in the morning, it started beating again, so we could open our eyes. One morning, when my mum told me i had to wake up to go to school and i should hurry up, I told her that I'm waiting for my heart to start beating.....

trecool_Girl

When I first learned about the coma, (I was around 3 or 4 at the time,) my friend convinced me that we went into one every night, so when I asked my dad for coffee to keep me from falling asleep, he set me straight.

Allie

When I was little, i always thought when you went to sleep, you would die and then come alive again...I probably got that idea when my grandma talked about hw she sleeps like a dead pig sometimes...XD

Jessie

When I layed down, my ear was laying hard against the pillow, so I could hear my pulse in my ear. To me it seemed that there was a big bear stomping on a murderous rampage and was after me. So than I always put my head under the pillow while pulling it against my head alot harder to feel more comfortable, which only made the pounding sound louder and I got even more scared. I could never sleep and always was afraid, intil I was about 5 or 6.

Frankalicious

one of my many starange dreams was
i was sleeping and my brother came in and shot me with a pellet gun in the leg.
when i woke up and felt the warmness at my side it was my cat

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

mom my always told us that if we stayed up late we would turn into pumpkins...that was here way of getting us to go to bed early

Anon

When i was younger My granmother told me if i went to bed without washing my face the angels wouldnt come down to protect me as i slept,it worked! I never went to bed without washing my face.

Anon

I used to believe that nightmares were actually movies that satan was screening in my mind.

Anon

When I was young, ever since I can rember, and until I was probley 10, I was strange.lol. I would lay down to sleep, and start dreaming that I was a butterfly, I would live out life as a butterfly in these dreams. And right before I woke up, I would lay down and start dreaming about being a human (as a butterfly) I had thoughts and everything in my dream.And each night, my stuff from the nights before dream would be tied in or continued, so I really had a 'life' So for years, I never really knew if I was a human or a butterfly. Because I was always dreaming I was living the life of the other one.

Holly-a very confused child from a very young age...

When i was little i used to think that any teeth that were under a pillow the tooth fairy took so every night i was terrified of sleeping with a pillow in case my head slipped under the pillow and the tooth fairy came and took all my teeth out every night my mom tried to get me to sleep with a pillow but i refused every time!

Martin Sean Murphy

I blamed my small chest on my sleeping on my stomach until I was 16. I figured that sleeping on your side was the best way to get bigger. No matter how I tried, I would wake up sleeping on my stomach. It was when I asked my friend (who is really big in THAT department) what way she slept and she said on her tummy that I stopped believing.

I blame genes!

when i was little, i used to hear a drumming sound in my ear when i went to sleep. i thought it was little men marching down a staircase like my ear was an airplane (or "ear"plane :P) and they were marching onto my pillow. i thought that for the longest time...i still dunno what that drumming sound is :/

Anon

When I was in either first, or second grade, I used to believe that anyone who appeared in my dream at night, must have actually been there too, and would remember it just as I did. The dreams in which a girl I liked appeared, made me believe that she would understand, when I saw her at school again, why I liked her.

Dude

When me and my brothers didnt want bad dreams before we went to sleep, we begged our parents to spray this stuff around our beds that gave us good dreams. Only soon after, i found out it was deodarant.

Jess

I thought that, when people slept, their hearts stopped and didn't start beating again until they woke up. It made sense to me at the time.

Marta

I use to believe that you could pry open your eyelids and say Its a nightmare to stop having a nightmare.

Denise

I used to believe that when i was awake, someone else was dreaming what i was doing and when i was sleeping...the dreams i was having was someone else's daily life. (so they were sleeping while i was awake...and i was sleeping while they were awake!!)

Anon

When I was little, I used to think that if you woke up fast enough that you could see yourself sleeping

Call me crazy but i believed it for a really really long time until I was like 8 or something like that.

Hayley

I have been a very restless sleeper my whole life, especially when I was younger. Sometimes, I would wake up completely turned around, with my head at the foot of my bed. I thought gnomes came in my room in the middle of the night and turned me around :p

Amy K!